177 bars at 165 BPM -- fast, and 4:17 of it without a break -- on crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.
silence through bars 1-4, hi-hat through bars 5-36, snare through bars 37-56, hi-hat through bars 57-74, toms through bars 75-76 and hi-hat through bars 77-84, and 5 more changes after that.
The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 41-43, 45-47 and 49-51, and 15 more places -- 34% of every bar the kit plays. That is the spine of it; everything else is what happens around it.
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1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
CC |x---x---x---x---|
SD |--------x-------|
BD |x-x---x---------|10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 40, 56, 75, 76, 78, 88 and 17 more.
It cuts the song into 41 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.
165 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. At that speed the sixteenth notes are the whole difficulty, so the room will take it down to a quarter of it and climb back.
41 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 25 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.
177 bars, about 4:17 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 41 exercises over 11 sittings, about 26 minutes each.
crash, hi-hat, snare, mid tom, floor tom and kick. That is most of a full kit; the part moves around it rather than sitting in one place.
10 fills to learn, played 23 times: bars 40, 56, 75, 76, 78, 88 and 17 more.